Photo courtesy of Liliana Guillen / Special to the Town CrierLiliana Guillen serves as keynote speaker at her 2015 graduation from Foothill College. After four years at Foothill and subsequently earning a bachelor’s degree from UCLA, she faces an uncertain future due to her undocumented status.

Liliana Guillen attended Foothill College and graduated last spring from UCLA with a bachelor’s degree in economics. Like many students who return home after completing school, she took a temporary j...

Motherhood – we romanticize it and expect each new mother and baby to bask in its golden glow. But for one in seven mothers, depression and anxiety during pregnancy or baby’s first year are an unexpected and unwelcome part of becoming a mom.

What are postpartum depression and anxiety? What are the symptoms and causes? How are they different from the “baby blues”?

The Bayer Ballet Company is scheduled to perform “Sleeping Beauty Suite” Friday through Sunday in downtown Mountain View.

“Sleeping Beauty” features magical fairies and other fairy-tale characters who come to life on stage. It features youth dancers from Bayer, a school of Russian Ballet based in Mountain View, performing to music from famed pianist Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Five hours went by at last week’s Los Altos City Council meeting before councilmembers called it quits and held both agenda items over to their next meeting.

That didn’t sit well with several residents who attended the standing-room-only meeting Sept. 12. They were audibly upset by the inaction, as many had demanded answers on the density-bonus ordinance and commercial thoroughfare zone amendments. There were times when they seemed to know more about the issues than the council, as they groaned...

Courtesy Of Debbie Nelson Debbie Nelson, center in green, takes a break from her fundraising hike along the Camino Portugués. For part of her journey, she hiked with three supporters of Lyme disease research from Denmark.

Long Time Resident of Palo Alto On August 25, 2017 Margaret (Maggie) Thompson Patch passed peacefully from complications of Alzheimer’s. She was born July 25, 1928 at Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D.C. She was pro...

LA considers joining anti-idling effort

The Palo Alto City Council Aug. 28 voted unanimously in favor of an anti-idling ordinance. The ordinance is expected to be educational in nature – not punitive. That’s because most people erroneously believe that idling is better for their engines...

Long Time Resident of Palo Alto On August 25, 2017 Margaret (Maggie) Thompson Patch passed peacefully from complications of Alzheimer’s. She was born July 25, 1928 at Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D.C. She was proud to be an ‘Army Brat’ and traveled with her fami...

Courtesy Of Debbie Nelson Debbie Nelson, center in green, takes a break from her fundraising hike along the Camino Portugués. For part of her journey, she hiked with three supporters of Lyme disease research from Denmark.

Long Time Resident of Palo Alto On August 25, 2017 Margaret (Maggie) Thompson Patch passed peacefully from complications of Alzheimer’s. She was born July 25, 1928 at Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D.C. She was proud to be an ‘Army Brat’ and traveled with her fami...

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